June 26, 2014 3:45 pm Leave your thoughts
This past weekend, I had the honor of volunteering as a timekeeper at the Stihl Timbersports Series Western Qualifier, held in Fort Saskatchewan, just outside of Edmonton. Timbersports is not hugely popular in Alberta (they are more of an East coast thing), so it was pretty exciting to be able to help out at such an important event. For those that don’t know,
June 26, 2014 2:54 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello everyone! The month of June has passed us by very quickly. We only have one week left! Crazy to think about how fast time went by and it is officially summer. We are on our second group of planters I get to meet them today and see how well they do on their first day. I am more prepared for them this time,
June 17, 2014 7:03 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello again folks, and welcome back to another blog from AV Nackawic. Since writing my last blog, I’ve had a lot of new experiences here in Nackawic. The most startling aspect of my job is the scale at which everything happens. Every couple of days I will be in a different part of the mill and I will see something that is much bigger that I imagined it would be.
June 17, 2014 6:49 pm Leave your thoughts
Before moving to Princeton one of things that I was most nervous about spending my summer here was the possibility of having nothing to do on weekends or in my spare time. I was moving to a small town in British Columbia from which I had no contacts other than my future coworkers that I had been communicating with leading up to the internship.
June 17, 2014 6:46 pm Leave your thoughts
Some things I’ve learned while working in this industry:
• Whitecourt has been named Canada’s Forestry capital for the second year running. How lucky is it that I get to work here?
• Canadian forests are replenished and consumed at a sustainable rate, ensuring the resource's infinite resilience. Sustainability isn't a 'saying' here; it’s a commitment.
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June 10, 2014 10:23 am Leave your thoughts
Hello everyone, this is only my second blog post, but it seems like so much has happened since my last entry. The last two weeks I have been learning how to use a program named MOPS as well as experimenting with pivot tables in Microsoft Excel. After spending only a couple of hours with both tools, I was struck by how significantly computational power has affected the capability of engineers to efficiently monitor and control chemical processes.
June 10, 2014 10:11 am Leave your thoughts
Thanks to the awesome team at Tolko, I really do love my job – but it doesn’t seem to make it any easier to pull myself out of bed on a Monday morning. I spent a little too much time dreaming big this morning – I slept right through my alarm. I got out of bed at around 7:30 AM, got myself ready and I was out the door by 7:50 AM for work at 8:00 AM.
June 10, 2014 9:28 am Leave your thoughts
Hello! My name is Jeremy Woo, and I am a business student at the University of Calgary. Last year, I served as a human resources intern at Tolko Industries in my beautiful hometown of Vernon, British Columbia. I am incredibly excited to be back at Tolko’s corporate human resources department again, this time working with the compensation and benefits team on exciting new projects.
June 9, 2014 2:32 pm Leave your thoughts
Well another 2 weeks have gone by which means I have even more exciting stuff to tell you guys about! Last week was pretty standard with being out in the bush, I did my first full block assessment of season. So basically what this entails is going into a cut block, after the planters are finished, and throwing a plot every 100 metres.
June 9, 2014 2:10 pm Leave your thoughts
Hey guys, I have been having lots of fun for the past couple weeks since my last blog. I have also learned very well how to get stuck and get a tow out. While I have been working, I’ve been looking back at how far I have come since high school. Going from high school to College is one of the scariest and exciting times I have had in my life,
June 9, 2014 1:16 pm Leave your thoughts
In case anyone is wondering, my name is Kyle. I am working for Millar Western in Whitecourt as a roads summer student. Even though summer has been here for almost a month, I have only just started working for Millar Western. I spent the first three weeks of my summer at a field school in Lac la Biche, a required course for my degree in Forestry at the U of A.
June 3, 2014 2:25 pm Leave your thoughts
I would like to start my blog by expressing my gratitude to AV Nackawic for their willingness to be involved with such an incredible program, and to the Forest Products Association of Canada for organizing these opportunities. These student positions give us the opportunity to experience an industry setting before we graduate from our respective universities. If it wasn’t for these opportunities,
June 3, 2014 2:18 pm Leave your thoughts
Blog #2 Keeping Busy at Weyerhaeuser
Since starting my Internship with Weyerhaeuser the main question that friends and family have been asking me is what kind of jobs I am doing here. So I thought throughout the week I would take pictures and write a blog about some of the jobs that are keeping me busy!
Ribboning Planting boundaries for planters is important and can be done for many different reasons.
June 3, 2014 2:16 pm Leave your thoughts
It’s difficult to believe that I’ve been working at Millar Western for a month now. With everything that I’ve been up to, the time has passed so quickly. Some fun things that I’ve been working on include lab testing and recording of particulate matter and chemicals in the plant effluent, charting values, field work for ground water quality sampling and testing,
May 30, 2014 10:36 am Leave your thoughts
Hi everyone, I think I forgot to introduce myself in my first blog so I will do it in this one. I have just recently completed my second year at University of Toronto as an Electrical & Computer Engineering student. I will be studying in depth into Control Systems and Energy Systems while pursuing a minor in Engineer Business.
My internship here at Canfor’s Mackenzie Sawmill has been great and I have been exposed to many control systems used here in the sawmill and the planer.